Fertilizer distributor



I May 10A 2 G. H. M TYREI FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTOR Filed April 11, 1924 3 Sheets-Sheet l I 1,627,798 May 10, H. McTYRE FERTILI ZER DI STRIBUTO R Filed April 1924 3 'Sheets-Sheetv5 &

' FERTILIZER. DZSTEHEBUIOR.

Application ru s April 11, 1924. serial no; 705,908.

This invention aim to provide altwo-row commercial fertilizer distributor which is so constructed that it will cover large strange in a short time, the device being so constructed that it not clog, and the ground heing opened'afor the reception of th ii rtiliz er.

4 fit is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the to utility of devices of-that type to which the invention up ermine.

V/ith the a ove .aiidjotherfohgects in vlew, which will appearlas the description proreeds, the invention resides in the combineit tion and arrangement of parts and in the detaiis of construction hereinafter described and claimed, itbeing understood that, with? 32 ed at 4 to a ton do 5. A forwardcr-osshar 8 is secured at to'the tongue 5. Blocks 8 are secured to. the rear ends of the side bars 2 and are attached thereto by bolts or the like, shown at 9, the ,joolts serving to 3.5 retain a rear cross bar 10 which is to be superposed on the blocks 8.' The forward cross bar 6 carries depending hangers 11 supporting 'an axle 12 whereon ground wheels 14 are journaled.

Hoppers 15 are mounted on the rear cross bar 10. The hoppers 15'are sustained from the forward cross bars 6 by braces 16. The

hoppers 15 are also sustained from rear cross bar 10 by braces 17. The-hoppers 15 have spouts 18 projecting through openings 19 in the rear cross bar 10. Chutes 2Q are attached as at 21 to cars 22 on the spouts.

The chutes 20 are equipped at their ower ends with discharge heads2-3 located behind furrow openers 24 secured by clamps 25, or otherwise, to inwardly extended beams 26, united bv sockets 27 or otherwise, to sleeves 28 which are mounted on the axle 12. The heads 23 of the chutes 20 are c nect d at 29 to the standard portions of the openers 29. Adjustable handles 30 of any desired sort are carried by the rear endsof the beams 26. g

r Bearings 31ers mounted on the forward cross bar 6. Inthe bearings 31, a shaft 32 is journale d for rotation. The shaft 32 is provided with a sprocket wheel 33 about I which is engaged a sprocket chainl34 co'-' operating with a sprocket wheel 35 which is connected to one of the ground wheels 14 to rotate therewith. The shaft 321 carries sprocket wheels 36 about which are engaged sprocket chains-37 cooperating with sprocket wheels 38 carried by shafts 39 journaled in hearings-40 carried by the rear crossbar 10 and located on both sides of each of the 49, upon a U shaped bracket 50, projecting forwardly from the rear cross bar 10 and secured thereto as shown at 51.

In practical o ration, one of the ground wheels 14 willp imp'art rotation to the sprocket wheel 35, the said sprocket wheel -endsof the levers 48 heingfulcrumed as at rotating the shaft 32 by way of the sprocket chain 34 and the sprocket wheel 33. When the shaft 32 is rotated, the sprocket wheels 36 drive the sprocket chains 37, the chains imparting rotation to the shafts 39, and the a itators 41 being caused to rotate within the hoppers 15 at the lower ends thereof. Through the instrumentality' of the lovers 43 and the links 45, the gates 43 may he slid inwardly and outwardly, thereby regulating the amount of fertilizer which passes from the hoppers 51, downwardly through the sprouts 18, into the chutes 20, and from thence through the discharge heads 23 into or' upon the ground, behind the furrow openers 24.

- The device is simple in construction and will be found very efficient for the ends in view. Although a specific form of cultivator frame has been described, it will be understood that the device is capable of use on cultivators of widely diflorent sorts.

ed rearwardly with,respect to the frame,'

- hoppers carried by the frame, gates slidable on the frame and governing the flow from the hoppers,'means for conveying the contents of the hoppers to the places of application, a bracket carried by the frame and located between the hoppers, the bracket extendin forwardly from the rear portion of the me, levers located between the the handles, the levers being fulcrumedat their forward ends on the intermediate portion of the bracket for horizontal swinging movement, outwardly extended links pivoted at their inner ends directly to the levers, and means for connecting the outer ends of the links directly and pivotally to the gates.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aifixed my signalture,

GEORGE H; MOTYRE. 

